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School of the Word

School of the Word. The Gospel and the Gospels Module 3: what is a gospel?. Part 1. Module 1: The current context of faith Module 2 : The readings at Mass Module 3 : What is a gospel? Module 4 : The Gospel of the current year Module 5: Mark’s portrait of Jesus

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School of the Word

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  1. School of the Word The Gospel and the Gospels Module 3: what is a gospel?

  2. Part 1 Module 1: The current context of faith Module 2: The readings at Mass Module 3: What is a gospel? Module 4: The Gospel of the current year Module 5: Mark’s portrait of Jesus Module 6: Discipleship according to Mark www.tarsus.ie

  3. Sequence • Reading Mark - how did you find it? • The word “gospel” • Timeline • Gospel and Gospels • Biographies www.tarsus.ie

  4. Reading Mark – how was it? • How did you feel? • Did anything strike you? • Anything you’d like to ask? www.tarsus.ie

  5. Old Testament (Isaiah) New Testament (throughout) What Jesus preached What early Christians said about Jesus The “Gospels” in the New Testament The word “gospel” Euagge/lion Euangelion Evangelium Good News gōd spell Gospel www.tarsus.ie

  6. map The word “gospel”

  7. The word “gospel” PRIENE CALENDAR INSCRIPTION www.tarsus.ie

  8. The word “gospel” Since providence, which has divinely disposed our lives, having employed zeal and ardour, has arranged the most perfect culminationfor life by producing Augustus, whom for the benefit of mankind she has filled with excellence, as if she had granted him as a saviour for us and our descendants, a saviour who brought war to an end and set all things in peaceful order and since with his appearance Caesar exceeded the hopes of all those who had received good newsbefore us, not only surpass those who had been benefactors before him, but not even leaving any hopeof surpassing him for those who are to come in the future, and since the beginning of the good news on his account for the worldwas thebirthday of a god… www.tarsus.ie

  9. Four Gospels used in the Church Familiar through the cycle of readings At heart, each Gospel is a“life” of Jesus The four Gospels do differ in approach For example: the first words, in his public ministry, of Jesus in four Gospels Gospel and Gospels www.tarsus.ie

  10. Gospel and Gospels www.tarsus.ie

  11. Gospel and gospels • Written from faith • Written for faith • To be read in faith • The guiding light is the Resurrection Different contexts, different portraits • Matthew: Jewish Christians • Mark: persecution? • Luke: non-Jews or Gentiles • John: mixed congregation www.tarsus.ie

  12. Gospel and gospels • Mark 16 • Matthew 28 • Luke 24 • (John 21) • Matthew and Luke are expansions of Mark • Matthew and Luke share about 250 verses not found in Mark • Matthew and Luke also have material unique to each one www.tarsus.ie

  13. Opening scenes… Matthew: The Sermon on the Mount Mark: A typical day Luke: Preaching in Nazareth John: Call of the first disciples Gospel and gospels www.tarsus.ie

  14. Gospel and gospels • You’ve been called / inspired / invited to write a Gospel • How would you do it? • What would you definitely include? • What would you perhaps leave out? www.tarsus.ie

  15. The Gospel writers used various sources They used sources differently They used sources freely Examples: Preaching in Nazareth, Sermon on the Mount, Cleansing of the Temple Gospel and gospels www.tarsus.ie

  16. MarkSayings (Q) The Sower The Lord’s Prayer M source L source The MagiProdigal Son Matthew Luke Gospels and gospels www.tarsus.ie

  17. 250 verses = the Sayings Sources (Quelle) Q survives only in Matthew and Luke Q written, probably, in Palestine, in Greek Gospel and gospels www.tarsus.ie

  18. Not everything was written down Awareness of traditions Offering a structured account Differing, to a greater and lesser extent Gospels and gospels www.tarsus.ie

  19. Time line 70 years 30 years www.tarsus.ie

  20. biographies • Before the Gospels, we find fragments of narrative: • In hymns, such as • In short “creeds” such as • In passages about the Christ event, such as • These traces presume a longer narrative • This longer narrative was oral until a double crisis triggered the writing down of the proclamation, always in the light of Easter www.tarsus.ie

  21. Biographies • Our Gospels resemble biographies of the time, but • The purpose is proclamation, in the light of Easter • The writers felt free to select, arrange, edit and add • Each Gospel has a viewpoint (a “theology”), a kind of religious DNA which enters every cell of the text • The story continued in the lives of believers • So, the Gospels are not biographies in our modern sense www.tarsus.ie

  22. biographies • Mark: probably oppression, if not persecution • Matthew: a difficult relationship with Jews • Luke: a text for the Gentile seeker • John: a community with a special history and leadership www.tarsus.ie

  23. Task for the next day Imagine only Mark has come down to us • What would be “missing” from our tradition? • Why, do you think, does Mark “leave out” so much? • Any really startling omission for you? www.tarsus.ie

  24. Conversation www.tarsus.ie

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